"This book elaborates, illuminates, and illustrates a confident and attractive account of social and political liberalism in light of a rich understanding of flourishing and fulfilment rooted in a version of natural law theory. Examining issues in ethics, law, and politics-including consumer responsibility, the assignment of grades by teachers, deception by lawyers, war and empire, and the use of victim-impact statements in parole decisions-Gary Chartier shows how natural law theory can effectively support pluralism, diversity, social equality, integrity, peace, and freedom"--"In a liberal order, people seek to flourish together in diverse ways while respecting everyone's right to be free from manipulation through the use of force or fraud. Thus, markets both are instances of and means of facilitating flourishing. Liberal enthusiasm for markets grows from multiple sources, but it notably embodies an awareness that shared prosperity is self-reinforcing, yielding a "general community of advantage" that creates multiple opportunities for people to realize the various basic goods. But the liberal appreciation for the value of immediate and extended social cooperation is hardly limited to a celebration of the genuinely transformative, emancipatory potential of markets. It extends to the whole range of consensual engagements possible for us as social creatures, both instrumentally valuable and inherently fulfilling"--.